Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee

Report to NPSS AdCom

Suleman Surti

November 02, 2013

2013 NMISC Election results and sub-committee chairs (1)

• We had eight candidates for 5 seats on NMISC and the new members are:

David Brasse – University of Strasbourg, France

Anna Celler – University of British Columbia, Canada

Katia Parodi – University of Munich, Germany

Dennis Schaart – Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Stefaan Vandenberghe– University of Gent, Belgium

Their terms will go from 1 January 2014 until 31 December 2016.

2013 NMISC Election results and sub-committee chairs (2)

• We had two candidates for the NMISC Vice-Chair

Paul Marsden – Kings College London

Vice Chair Jan 01, 2014 – Dec 31, 2015

Chair Jan 01, 2016 – Dec 31, 2017

• In addition,• Andrew Goertzen took over as the Secretary and Chair of

Nominations Sub-Committee in 2013 summer and will continue in this position for 2014

• New Chair of Awards/Fellows Sub-committee for 2014• New Chair of Communications (Web) Sub-committee for 2014

General NMISC issues (1)

• Within RISC and NMISC there has beem an ongoing effort to re-organize the Joint Oversight Subcommittee (JOS) responsible for NSS/MIC site selection• Elected Vice-chair who becomes chair after 2 years• Post of most recent past chair has been created• 4 elected members (2 each from NMISC and RISC) + 2 appointed by

JOS chair• NMISC and RISC chair

General NMISC issues (2)

• C&BL Section 3.5 revised and approved by NMISC. Motion for AdCom Approval of this change later.

• General agreement within NMISC and RISC joint sub-committee to have sub-program chairs and topic convener to look into the quality of submission to NSS MIC.

• NMISC Motion to Technically co-sponsor PET-MR/SPECT-MR (PSMR) meeting. Voting will take place in the next few weeks and subsequent submission to AdCom.

Medical Imaging Conference status and plans (1)

• 2013, Seoul:• 691 abstracts submitted• 92% acceptance rate• 497 poster presentations over 3 parallel poster sessions• 136 oral presentations

– 5 parallel and 4 single sessions – 2 joint sessions (MIC/RTSD and NSS/MIC)– 1 triple-joint session (NSS/MIC/RTSD)

Medical Imaging Conference status and plans (2)

• 2013, Seoul (cont.):• 7 Short course (NSS + MIC)• 5 morning refresher courses (MIC only)

– Fundamentals and Recent Advances of X-ray Computed Tomography– Fundamentals and Recent Advances of MRI– Basics of Scintillation and Solid-state Detectors– Workshop for New Authors and Referees: A Guide to Best Practices in Writing and

Reviewing Scientific Papers– Fundamentals of Statistical Imaging Reconstruction

• Two plenary sessions• Invited speakers:

– Dr. J. Jo (Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea): “See the Future of Medical Imaging through Consumer Electronics and Information Technologies ”

– Dr. M. G. Pomper (Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, MD, USA): titled “Forays into Molecular Imaging ”

Medical Imaging Conference status and plans (3)

• 2013, Seoul (cont.):• Awards

Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist AwardJeffrey Fessler, Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbore

“For contributions to the theory and application of statistical image reconstruction methods in nuclear medicine, X-ray CT, and magnetic resonance imaging”

Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Scientist Award

Martin Judenhofer, Res. Scientist, University of California, Davis

“For contributions small-animal imaging instrumentation and the development of pre-clinical simultaneous PET/MRI scanners”

Medical Imaging Conference status and plans (4)

• 2014, Seattle, WA: Tony Lavietes is General Chair; Georges El Fakhri will be the MIC Program Chair.

• 2015: Vesna Sossi is General Chair; Adam Alessio will be the MIC Program Chair.

• 2016, Strasbourg, France: Maxim Titov will be General Chair

• 2017, North America: Chattanooga, Atlanta, Ottawa

• 2018: Proposals from Australia and Japan